Report Title:

Grants-in-aid

Description:

Changes current grants-in-aid for social services process to a community planning and delivery process.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

3207

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006

  

STATE OF HAWAII

  

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to grants-in-aid.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that in June 2005, Hawai`i's 30 member Economic Momentum Commission (EMC) was formed with the goal of prolonging the state's current economic vitality. To accomplish this, the EMC was tasked to develop an action plan to sustain the state's current economic momentum over the longer term, reduce the traditional peaks and valleys of economic cycles, and enhance Hawai`i's natural and cultural resources. Drawing members from business, government, the military, cultural organizations, education, non-profits, labor unions, and others, the EMC held meetings throughout the rest of 2005 in an effort to make recommendations to the Legislature to achieve the EMC's goal.

One area the EMC touched on was changes to the way the state delivers grants-in-aid. The EMC found that the process of planning and delivering social services in Hawai`i is not well coordinated and potentially leads to inefficient use of limited resources. This leads to a short-term focus that inhibits effective resource allocation and beneficial cooperation between organizations with common interests, sacrificing potential positive opportunities toward human development. The purpose of this Act is to improve the process for administering grants-in-aid.

SECTION 2. There is created a Social Services Planning Committee to develop a long-range state plan which coordinates the various sectors of Hawai`i's social service framework. The plan shall focus on defining specific quality of life indicators, improving the specific quality of life indicators, establishing the criteria for grant allocation by the grant review committee as established by this Act, and developing industry leadership.

The members of this committee shall include the following, or their designees:

(1) the director of human services, who shall serve as chairperson of the committee;

(2) the director of the office of community services;

(3) the director of health;

(4) the chairs of the House and Senate Human Services committees;

(5) the chairs of the House Finance and Senate Ways and Means committees; and

(6) three members of the social services industry, as selected by the Governor.

The committee created under this section shall dissolve

upon completion of the long-range state plan. Adoption of the

plan shall require a majority vote in favor of the plan.

SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $______, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007, for the expenses of the Social Services Planning Committee.

SECTION 4. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 5. Upon completion of the long-range state plan, there shall be established a grant review committee to review applications for grants-in-aid. The committee shall use the criteria established in the long-range state plan to allocate grant moneys. The members of this committee shall include the following, or their designees:

(1) four members of the social services industry, with the advice and consent of the Senate, as selected by the Governor, provided that the initially appointed members cannot have served on the Social Services Planning Committee;

(2) three members of the public, with the advice and consent of the Senate, as selected by the Governor;

(3) one member of the social services industry and one member of the public, as selected by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;

(4) one member of the social services industry and one member of the public, as selected by the Senate President;

(5) the director of human services;

(6) the director of the office of community services;

(7) the director of health; and

(8) the director of budget and finance.

Each appointed person shall serve for a six-year term, except for the initial appointment of the Speaker of the House, which shall be for two years, and the initial appointment of the Senate President, which shall be for four years.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval, except for sections 3 and 4, which shall take effect on July 1, 2006.

 

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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